A year after using their top three picks on pitchers, the Padres spent Thursday adding three bats -- Hunter Renfroe, Dustin Peterson and Jordan Paroubeck – to their farm system. Second-year draft guru Chad MacDonald said that was simply just the way the board fell.

“We really did take the best players we thought had the biggest chance to impact the organization,” MacDonald said. “If it had been three arms, we would’ve gotten that.”